Thursday, January 17, 2013

Drowning In Stupidi-Tea

As some of our readers have mentioned over the last few years, we tend to point out the flaws in the Republican Party in specific, and the conservative movement in general, on a regular basis. Meanwhile, we haven't generally focused on the faults of the Democratic Party lately.

Even vaunted young conservative Republican media figures like Jonah Goldberg have finally begun to voice their concerns. No matter how "pure" any group's ideology is, if the group can't grow and convince a wider audience that their ideas have value and merit, that group will shrink and eventually die.

It's not just Goldberg who understands this.

Justin Green - a fellow Nebraskan and current assistant to sensible moderate Republican David Frum - also pointed out on Wednesday what we've thought was obvious, namely that "the GOP should be working to limit its losses over the next two years and prepare to recover in the midterms. Instead, we're seeing the hucksters of the movement claim the answer is to get madder, get louder, and to really ramp up the fight. In what way do they think this moves us closer to the our desired ends?"

Ideology without effecting any real progress is dead in the water - or tea, as is the case currently, with the GOP.